Unlock the Wii's potential! (since Nintendo won't)

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat May 30, 2009 1:42 am

I know there's a lot of Wii haters here, and it's hard not to be since Nintendo apparently doesn't know what to do with it. Yet the wii-mote or wii-mote + nunchuck have potential.

What games would you design for the wii that apparently nintendo is too stupid to think of?

Here's a few of mine:

#1 - the obvious fleshed out versions of every wii sport game that actually worked (IE Wii bowling). There are other bowling titles on the wii, and yet Wii bowling still makes best use of the wii-mote. WTF???!!!

#2 - I want a wii hand-gliding game. The very nature of the wii-mote allows for all sorts of intuitive controls, and input that is much more complex than down+X. This could incorporate all sorts of real physics--hell, I wanna ride thermals. In advanced mode you can go from hand-glider to 'bird mode' using two wii-motes, one for each wing! Fuck yeah! This is either the best or most stupid idea evah!!!111!! (helll, I want a drunken party where people have to try to fly with two wiimotes, fuuuuckkkyeeeeeahhhhhh!)

#3 - Man, why wasn't Endless Ocean the game it should have been -- Ever Blue 3??? I wanted to use the wii-mote to salvage all kinds of crap off the ocean floor and sell it on the island until...until...until I could buy the whole island!!! Hmm, maybe this is less about the wii and more about the kind of games I want to play

#??? - I keep thinking about other popular titles that could have made creative use of the wiimote. In Yakuza 2 for instance, I want to actually use the wiimote to drink all that scotch, or in God Hand, you could have used the wiimote to spank your female opponents (mostly overlooked in the lost opportunity that was MadWorld...*sighs*).

So where are your lists? We must send our ideas to Nintendo, because if they can have the most popular console without even having games, imagine how much money they'd have WITH games!!!

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sat May 30, 2009 2:18 am

Hi Nintendo,

Next time gimme a controller that actually fucking works like advertised.

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Sat May 30, 2009 2:47 am

As long as someone makes a really good swordfighting game with Wii Motion Plus, I'll be happy.

All the rest of the good stuff on the Wii, the stuff the Wii was made for, is the sort of thing I would never even think of until I saw it. Like Zack and Wiki, for example. Fantastic, inventive game that really only works on the Wii.

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Sat May 30, 2009 3:07 am

I would make a new Star Fox with head tracking and a new independent weapon that is aimed with the Wiimote.

MAYBE a melee weapon via waggle, but only if it's precise enough. It wouldn't really be Star Fox anymore though. Kinda like Radiant Silvergun or a Milestone shoot 'em up in 3D.

Okay, maybe head tracking in a space shooter is a bad idea. But I really want another Star Fox some day, preferably like 64.

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Sat May 30, 2009 3:09 am

I wonder if 'Wii Lumberjack' is their new bombshell at E3 this year.

Or maybe 'Wii Are Blind', where the game consists of you holding the Wii Remote like a blind person's walking stick, and you have to accomplish goals on a black screen.

EDIT: I'm obviously not being serious. I love the Wii, even if the majority of its games suck.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sat May 30, 2009 3:27 am

Wii Walking? It's already done, buddy.

I'm waiting for Wii Find Something Better to Do from Nintendo.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sat May 30, 2009 8:32 am

Momijitsuki wrote: Or maybe 'Wii Are Blind', where the game consists of you holding the Wii Remote like a blind person's walking stick, and you have to accomplish goals on a black screen.

Brilliant!

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:30 pm

Just softmod your wii and you'll love it.

All the emulators just rule.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:58 pm

pilot wings for wii would be cool

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:47 pm

Momijitsuki wrote:'Wii Lumberjack'

Can I call it or am I just psychic?

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:55 pm

CMoon wrote:I want a wii hand-gliding game.

Sigged.

Lordstar wrote:pilot wings for wii would be cool

Wing Island is worth a rent, both of you.

steveovig · Post by **steveovig** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:16 pm

I like the Wii. I think it's got the most hardcore lineup out of this generation. Think about how many 2D platformers have come out on the Wii alone. Also, the number of shooters and cool, weird games (De Blob) it has beats out both the 360 and PS3.

Matsunaga · Post by **Matsunaga** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:57 pm

The Wii has a lineup?

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:16 am

3D dungeon-crawler using Wii motion plus, something King's Field-ish in first person but unlike KF make it playable in small sessions. Don't want to get exhausted while slaying monsters.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:09 am

Wing Island looks horrible. I want a real Pilotwings. With Rocket Belt.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:08 am

A new panzer dragoon.... with a wii mote for your gun and a stick for your flight I think the 2 would marry together well.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:57 pm

Strider77 wrote:A new panzer dragoon.... with a wii more for your gun and a stick for your flight I think the 2 would marry together well.

Yeah, it's kinda obvious isn't it. Certain games just seem to have been made for the wii; you'd think they'd make games like that!

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:40 pm

szycag wrote:Wing Island looks horrible. I want a real Pilotwings. With Rocket Belt.

It is horrible, but not because of looks; angling the Wiimote forward and down is a pain in the wrist, which also killed the fuck out of what fun SMBBB could have been.

Guess I found Pilotwings too late, and couldn't deal with the graphical sparseness even though the frame rate is awesome.

I do like a bit of jetpack in an FPS.

Post by **undamned** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:57 pm

Uh, Brave Firefighters, anyone?
-ud

Koa Zo · Post by **Koa Zo** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:23 am

Strider77 wrote:A new panzer dragoon.... with a wii more for your gun and a stick for your flight I think the 2 would marry together well.

Remember Capcom's Dead Phoenix for Gamecube?
At one point after is was canceled it was rumored to be getting a makeover as a new Kid Icarus game.
I've been expecting it to show up on Wii ever since, but, well here we are, 3 years into the system's life and nothing even close to a Panzer Dragoon or Starfox game.

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:57 am

Koa Zo wrote:I've been expecting it to show up on Wii ever since, but, well here we are, 3 years into the system's life and nothing even close to a Panzer Dragoon or Starfox game.

Sega's too busy milking their Sonic franchise to death to go about developing a Panzer Dragoon game for the Wii.

For Nintendo...yeah. They're just blind of some of their successful franchises of yesteryear...unless we can expect StarFox Assault with New Play Control. Then again, some people probably won't play the NPC of StarFox Assault if it were to come out for the following reasons:

- It's a re-release with Wii controls.
- The original game was panned to death.

However, if possible, the New Play Control version of StarFox Assault could probably fix those mistakes made in the Gamecube version, but depending on how they execute the re-released product, who knows?

guigui · Post by **guigui** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:41 am

CMoon wrote:
Strider77 wrote:A new panzer dragoon.... with a wii more for your gun and a stick for your flight I think the 2 would marry together well.
Yeah, it's kinda obvious isn't it. Certain games just seem to have been made for the wii; you'd think they'd make games like that!

Sin & Punishment 2 looks like that to me.

Jockel mentionned softmodding, which I did. And it does indeed reveal a great potential for the wii. However, why the hell is MAME not available ? I mean, the wii can do it, at least for pre 2000 games.
The only version we have works lunatically and takes 30 minutes to load Gigawing...

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:11 pm

undamned wrote:Uh, Brave Firefighters, anyone?
-ud

Burning Rangers?

Post by **undamned** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:59 pm

Ex-Cyber wrote:
undamned wrote:Uh, Brave Firefighters, anyone?
-ud
Burning Rangers?

No. http://www.segaarcade.com/archive/bravefire.aspx
-ud

popawell · Post by **popawell** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:12 am

undamned wrote:
Ex-Cyber wrote:
undamned wrote:Uh, Brave Firefighters, anyone?
-ud
Burning Rangers?
No. http://www.segaarcade.com/archive/bravefire.aspx
-ud

Anyone else who played this have problems with the controllers?
I played 3 at different arcades, none of them ever worked right.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:23 am

Sex minigames using the vitality sensor.

Post by **undamned** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:49 pm

popawell wrote:
undamned wrote:
Ex-Cyber wrote:Burning Rangers?
No. http://www.segaarcade.com/archive/bravefire.aspx
-ud
Anyone else who played this have problems with the controllers?
I played 3 at different arcades, none of them ever worked right.

The one I played seemed to work fine. I'm just not awesome at it

-ud

Ka0tiK · Post by **Ka0tiK** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:33 am

I sucked at Brave Firefighters. The Demo mode makes it look fun, easy to play, and just reels you in, but the second I laid my hands on it meant forking dollars down the chute hands over fist.

I thought it was a cool game. I was just way to young to know how to play it correctly.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:38 pm

Koa Zo wrote:
Strider77 wrote:A new panzer dragoon.... with a wii more for your gun and a stick for your flight I think the 2 would marry together well.
Remember Capcom's Dead Phoenix for Gamecube?
At one point after is was canceled it was rumored to be getting a makeover as a new Kid Icarus game.
I've been expecting it to show up on Wii ever since, but, well here we are, 3 years into the system's life and nothing even close to a Panzer Dragoon or Starfox game.

A new Kid Icarus game of ANY kind would be cause for world celebration, but on the Wii would be fantabulous. I've been jonesing for some good KI action since I played the crap out of the Gameboy sequel.

undamned - love the new avatar, great CD!

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:54 pm

Momijitsuki wrote:
Momijitsuki wrote:'Wii Lumberjack'

Can I call it or am I just psychic?

That just made me cry. What the hell? Chopping wood with an axe is fun, but the fun is swinging a REAL axe. Wow, lame.

Go nintendo - way to take potential and drive it into the ground. I mean, that Wii music thing? Uber lame.

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